The state law authorizing the casino relocation requires all employees working at the Majestic Star when it closes be given jobs at the Hard Rock Casino when it opens. The Majestic Star casinos currently employ about 950 workers, he said.

John Keeler, Spectacle Vice President and General Counsel, said the new facility will employ up to 1,600 workers when the casino, entertainment and dining amenities open Decem, and have 1,800 total employees when the planned hotel comes on line two to three years later. With state approval in hand, Spectacle Entertainment, the casino owner, plans to begin construction later this year on a $300 million, 225,000-square-foot facility that includes a casino with more than 2,000 slot machines and table game seats, a sportsbook, a Hard Rock Cafe, a 2,000-seat Hard Rock Live music performance venue, numerous restaurants and bars, and eventually an attached 200-room hotel and parking garage. 'This will truly create a destination location within Northwest Indiana, and specifically the city of Gary,' Gaming Commissioner Joseph Svetanoff, of Crown Point, said before making the motion to approve the casino move, as reported by The Times of Northwest Indiana. It's the first time an Indiana casino has been permitted to move from its dockside property to an inland location, made possible by the May 8 enactment of House Enrolled Act 1015. The Indiana Gaming Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to authorize the relocation and consolidation of Gary's Majestic Star casinos from Lake Michigan to a land-based site adjacent to the Borman Expressway at Burr Street, where they'll be rebranded as a Hard Rock Casino.

It has plans to begin construction later this year, and for the casino, entertainment and dining amenities to open December 31, 2020. Spectacle Entertainment had secured Tuesday the unanimous consent of the Gary Common Council for the move. Indiana Gaming Commission green-lighted Wednesday Gary's Majestic Star casinos move from Lake Michigan to a land-based site, a kind of move permitted for the first time in the state.

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